Most entrepreneurs will admit luck plays a part in success.
All human beings are entrepreneurs.
Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.
One of the keys to thinking big is total focus. I think of it almost as a controlled neurosis, which is a quality I've noticed in many highly successful entrepreneurs.
But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.
Entrepreneurs: See yourself as victorious- and the best way to be victorious is to be passionate. Find something you love doing!
Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?
Entrepreneurs don’t do most of the work. Entrepreneurs identify the problems, discover the opportunities and then build processes to allow other people and other things to do the work.
The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth. Those qualities that have made America the greatest force of progress and prosperity in human history we still possess in ample measure.
Entrepreneurs make fast decisions and move forward knowing that at best 70% of their decisions are going to be right. They move the ball forward every day. They are quick to spot their mistakes and correct.
Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.
Entrepreneurship is “risky” mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
Entrepreneurs need to be positive. Always. Entrepreneurs need to be brave, often. And lastly, entrepreneurs need to be obsessed.
Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.
I did what I think a lot of entrepreneurs do. I started putting up a lot of ads on Craigslist for interns.
I'm pretty confident the why works now. When it first began, somebody said to me: "Will this work in big business?" I said, "I don't know. Let's try. " Somebody said will this work in entrepreneurs, relationships or government and military. I said, "I don't know. Let's try. " I kept applying the scientific method. I had a theory. I kept applying that theory, looking for opportunities to fail and it kept working.
I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
Entrepreneurs, because they need money, they are willing to share their crystal ball with someone like me. That's the best thing ever.
Mastermind and collaborate with other smart entrepreneurs if they have futures that are even bigger than their present.
In the world of entrepreneurs, you don't need a college education. You need a proper education.